Lead Test Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Test Engineer salary in England is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 829 871
Rank change year-on-year +150 +42 +239
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 12 14 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.016% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.017% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 26
10th Percentile £55,000 - £44,500
25th Percentile £56,100 - £44,903
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -27.27% -26.67%
75th Percentile £74,375 £53,250 £65,813
90th Percentile £81,500 £59,447 £78,382
UK median annual salary £68,750 £45,996 £55,000
% change year-on-year +49.47% -16.37% -15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in England

Lead Test Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Test Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Test Engineer in England

Lead Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Test Engineer in England

Lead Test Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +111 4 - -
South East +98 4 £59,500 +48.75% 3
North of England +53 3 £75,000 +38.46% 6
North West +7 2 £78,750 +45.38% 4
London - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £59,800 - 2
Lead Test Engineer
UK

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Lead Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
3 7 (58.33%) BDD
3 7 (58.33%) Java
4 6 (50.00%) Python
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Linux
5 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
5 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (33.33%) TDD
6 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (33.33%) System Testing
6 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 4 (33.33%) Docker
6 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (25.00%) DevOps
7 3 (25.00%) QA
7 3 (25.00%) Selenium
8 2 (16.67%) JUnit
8 2 (16.67%) C#
8 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
8 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
8 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (16.67%) Postman

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) JUnit
2 2 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) Appium
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) JMeter
3 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (8.33%) TestComplete
3 1 (8.33%) TestNG
General
1 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Games
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Cordova
1 1 (8.33%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
1 1 (8.33%) pytest
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.33%) Online Games
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
3 7 (58.33%) BDD
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
6 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 4 (33.33%) System Testing
6 4 (33.33%) TDD
7 3 (25.00%) DevOps
8 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 2 (16.67%) Coaching
8 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
9 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) C++
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) CyberSource